Aspects of Piranesi
Subtitle: essays on history, criticism and invention
By: Dirk De Meyer, Bart Verschaffel, Pieter-Jan Cierkens, eds. : Dirk de Meyer [and 5 others; contributors]
Contributors: Rijksuniversiteit te Gent. Vakgroep Architectuur en Stedenbouw
Publisher: A&S/books [Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of Ghent University]
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Ghent
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9789076714462
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Architecture; Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: "They despise my novelty and humble birth, I their cowardly conservatism" : architecture and politics in the plates of Piranesi's "Parere su l'architettura" / Dirk De Meyer; title: Piranesi's "Parere" and the beauty of architecture / Maarten Delbeke; title: Piranesi and primitivism : origin as invention / Sigrid de Jong; title: Architectural history without words : Piranesi's representations of Rome, anachronism and historical experience / Caroline van Eck; title: Rome pictured as a world : on the function and meaning of the "staffage" in Geovanni Battista Piranesi's "Vedute" / Bart Verschaffel; title: Eisenstein's Piranesi and cinematic space / Steven Jacobs; title: Unknown drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Charles-Louis Clérisseau and Lieven Cruyl in the "Album Goetghebuer" / Bart Verschaffel; title: Piranesi : the print collection of Ghent University, a portfolio of the 2008 MSK exhibition.